The Maccabees announce ‘Marks To Show It’ tenth anniversary reissue with newly shared tune ‘Koya’ and extra

The Maccabees have introduced a tenth anniversary reissue for ‘Marks To Show It’ and shared ‘Koya’, a never-heard tune from the period.

The album was the band’s fourth and remaining document, launched in July 2015 and reaching the Quantity One spot on the UK Albums Chart, their first LP to take action. It was additionally named because the ninth greatest album of 2015 by NME.

Two years later, the band cut up up, however they introduced their return in October final yr. Their first reunion gig went down at London’s The Dome in June in help of the MS Society, and days later they performed a triumphant set headlining The Park Stage at Glastonbury 2025.

Now, they’ve introduced that the tenth anniversary version of ‘Marks To Show It’ might be launched on November 28. It will likely be obtainable in basic black double-vinyl, 3CD and digital variations with a group of B-sides, acoustic tracks and radio periods, whereas the CD and digital variations may even embrace their complete Glastonbury 2015 set, which featured an look from Jamie T. Pre-order the album right here.

To announce the reissue, the band have shared ‘Koya’, a beforehand unreleased monitor from the period that’s included among the many B-sides and rarities. Pay attention right here:

Guitarist Felix White has stated: “We didn’t know it could be the final album we made on the time however, with far, it’s the most likely the closest factor to a definitive Maccabees album, with part of all of the variations of us earlier than in it. It was a extremely dedicated time – the place all our lives and focus was going into this music for higher or for worse – and ten years on, that’s actually one thing you’ll be able to hear in it.”

‘Marks To Show It: tenth Anniversary Version’ tracklist:

CD1 / LP1 / single-vinyl / digital – authentic album

1. ‘Marks To Show It’
2. ‘Kamakura’
3. ‘Ribbon Highway’
4. ‘Spit It Out’
5. ‘Silence’
6. ‘River Track’
7. ‘Gradual Solar’
8. ‘One thing Like Happiness’
9. ‘WW1 Portraits’
10. ‘Pioneering Programs’
11. ‘Daybreak Refrain’

CD2 / LP2 / digital – b-sides and acoustic variations

1. ‘Nimm’
2. ‘Koya’
3. ‘The Reality’
4. ‘One thing Like Happiness’ (acoustic)
5. ‘Kamakura’ (acoustic)
6. ‘Marks To Show It’ (acoustic)
7. ‘Spit It Out’ (acoustic)
8. ‘Marks To Show It’ (Steve Lamacq Maida Vale session monitor, twenty third June 2025)

CD3 / digital – Reside at Glastonbury 2015

1. ‘Wall of Arms’
2. ‘Really feel to Comply with’
3. ‘Younger Lions’
4. ‘Love You Higher’
5. ‘Kamakura’
6. ‘One thing Like Happiness’
7. ‘Latchmere’
8. ‘Valuable Time’
9. ‘Can You Give It’
10. ‘Marks to Show It’ (with Jamie T)
11. ‘Spit It Out’
12. ‘No Variety Phrases’
13. ‘Pelican’
14. ‘Grew Up at Midnight’

NME caught up with the band backstage at Glastonbury this yr, the place they mirrored on the 2015 set. “Properly, that’s fairly large in The Maccabees’ story, as a result of clearly Jamie T got here and performed with us and that’s one of many issues from our historical past that appears to get clipped up and used rather a lot,” White stated.

“In order that was a giant deal on the time. I feel this may be the fifth time we performed Glastonbury and it at all times went up from being the primary on or the second on the brand new bands tent to we had been second high of what’s now the Woodsies tent, coated in mud, me sporting one sock, taking part in to not that many individuals. After which we did some fairly large reveals on the Different Stage.”

In a five-star overview of the band’s Glastonbury 2025 efficiency, NME wrote: “This might go down as considered one of The Maccabees’ most euphoric reveals. There are few issues extra joyful than witnessing White grinning ear to ear as he hypes up the group between songs. Frontman Orlando Weeks, in the meantime, seems happier than ever, becoming a member of his bandmate in some uncommon cases of geeing up the group and looking out actually appreciative of the second.”